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by xyzzy4 11y ago
$250M when all those workers could be working from home with the same efficiency, and greater quality of life.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Did he specify which films were added in the second revision?
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
I disagree. They don't need to go up. Money will keep exchanging hands, which is all that's needed for a living economy, despite what interest rates are. Housing prices will always inflate to the level where people can barely pay
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
It doesn't seem like the logo change fixed the company.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
All I have to say is it's super fucking creepy that Obama wants to hack my phone.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Many managers could interpret it as a bad attitude or lack of motivation. As an engineer, I don't like having a financially risky conversation every week or two weeks. There's too many variables and ways to screw up.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
One on ones can also screw over employees if they say the wrong thing. Ever notice how management usually wants regular one on ones, but employees don't? They damage the quality of life for the employee because they must have a risky c
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
If you invested $1/day on margin, and sell or buy more over time to maintain a debt/equity ratio, it would be a lot more.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
That's not true if you sell stock to maintain a certain equity to debt ratio. If you use leverage in the S&P 500 then you have much a faster growth rate, so in the long term it's still better.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
You can make even more money in the long run if you use leverage to bet on the S&P 500. If you don't believe me, do the math out.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Well part of the reason we have brains is so you can think about something before you do it.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
If you want to trip out, just take a lot of cough syrup (DXM) and a lot of Benadryl (DPH). You can buy both over the counter. You don't need LSD. https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DXM_%26_DPH_in_combination
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
His concern made sense but I thought he overreacted.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
One time when I was an intern, I got screamed at by an old-timer technician when he found out I connected a few computers in a lab room to the Internet. Because an Internet connection causes viruses.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
I would sell that stock ASAP.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
They lost control when they didn't want to legislate anti-encryption laws.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Twitter isn't going away. But will it make money in the same way that, for example, buying $10 billion of real estate and renting it out would make money?
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
I grew up in the suburbs around Boston, USA.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
> Mostly it's all about the value you're able to provide. And the scarcity of that value.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
In my opinion, you can only value tech companies relative to each other, because as a whole their price/earnings ratios are all too high. For example, if you sum the value of the entire solar power industry, you get roughly the value o
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Or maybe they silently care and hope for your company to fail. Many people love watching other people fail, especially if those people have high status.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Probably sounds better than "300th most talked about city" which would probably be more accurate.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
PhDs seem like a journey to nowhere. What's the point? I guess I just don't see what you get out of it that's valuable enough to devote 4 years.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
I disagree. Recursion makes a stack trace that should be 10 functions deep into one that's 1000 functions. It's difficult to debug and follow the code around, or even to understand the code if someone else wrote it. Also recursive
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Functional programming also emphasizes the use of recursion, which nearly always makes an algorithm much harder to understand.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Because it doesn't have enough advantages to justify the added complexity.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Instead we pursued the dream of 140 character messages.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
> BTW: You mention you were aware that your thoughts would seem crazy to others. Were you also aware that they are crazy (or did they seem perfectly reasonable to you at the time)? They always seemed as "reasonable" as they&#x2
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
Doing things that challenge your sense of reality can cause a lot of mental health disturbances, especially when your brain isn't fully matured. So there is a lot of correlation between the two.
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by xyzzy4 11y ago
I had psychosis several years ago and I was pretty good at hiding it until the point where I became hospitalized. The trick is you have to be acutely aware of whether you are sounding crazy to others, and how you're being perceived. Yo

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